North Korea

[-DAvo]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/northkorea/timeline.html

thoughts? discuss!

[wtr]

I pity the starving civilians. But at the same time, I'm anticipating the day Kim's regime gets toppled by wide spread open revolts. Either that or he gets done JFK style.

[Binaural]

I pity the starving civilians. But at the same time, I'm anticipating the day Kim's regime gets toppled by wide spread open revolts. Either that or he gets done JFK style.

While the current regime definitely deserves the "Stalinist" tag, it has also been pretty stable despite the many humanitarian disasters that have befallen NK in the last 30 years. No communist regimes I know of have been toppled by widespread revolts by the people; most dictators are wise enough to keep the army on side.

[lopes]

That cbc timeline is a little one sided, and skips over how the US reneged on the 1994 agreement (Clinton delayed, and then Bush abandoned)

Professor Gavin McCormack of ANU has a slightly different view regarding Nth Korea (try Google if you are interested).

[gravelclimber]

No communist regimes I know of have been toppled by widespread revolts by the people; most dictators are wise enough to keep the army on side.

There's been plenty of communist regimes toppled by the people. The Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia is but one example:

(Czech: sametová revoluce, Slovak: nežná revolúcia) (November 16 – December 29, 1989) refers to a bloodless revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government there.